User statistics

dav7 · 2008-12-06 06:38:47

As a bit of a brag to a Gentoo user I just counted the number of users on the Arch forums. That basically involved counting how many users there were per page (50), checking if the users on the last page was 50 (it wasn't, it was 8), calculating 50 * ($page_count - 1) (388), and adding 8 to that (the number of users on the last page).

The result? 19,408.

But that's not all that good of an estimate. That doesn't account for users with 0 posts.

So, a similar procedure later, I selected 'Sort by: No. of posts', found the first page with users with >0 posts on it (page 103 today, 2008-Dec-06), did a bit more math, and...

14,253 users have more than 0 posts here.

I think that's pretty cool.

I was just wondering, though, if the forum admins ever feel bored maybe they could write a quick PHP script that queries the DB table for its user count - perhaps every 3 months - and posts the results here automatically

-dav7

iBertus · 2008-12-06 06:56:39

Wow, this place has grown over the years. I just realized that I'm like 21st on the overall post list.

ST.x · 2008-12-06 06:57:31

Good idea, and we can use that to make pretty graphs with it

Xyne · 2008-12-06 10:14:26

Total users vs time(ignoring banned)

Registrations per day

stonecrest · 2008-12-06 16:46:48

Err, your 19,000 number is right on the homepage.

Total number of registered users: 19420

crouse · 2008-12-06 17:08:19

dav7 wrote:

....I was just wondering, though, if the forum admins ever feel bored maybe they could write a quick PHP script that queries the DB table for its user count - perhaps every 3 months - and posts the results here automatically
-dav7

stonecrest wrote:

Err, your 19,000 number is right on the homepage.
Total number of registered users: 19420

........ on second thought........ maybe those forum admins just work REALLY FAST

haxit · 2008-12-06 17:21:40

Very cool stats. Too bad 70% or something of statistics are not true ;P

toofishes · 2008-12-06 18:11:04

http://dev.archlinux.org/~dan/archgrowth.png

Forum posts on the right axis, everything else is graphed against the left.

dav7 · 2008-12-07 01:46:32

Wow.

And I'm sure my 19408 was right... maybe 12 new users just registered? lol

-dav7

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